how to remove leading zero from a string

Question

Hi there, 
 kind new to Appian, just want to know how to remove the leading zero from a string in Expression rule. 
 thanks,

Chris · Answer

Also, in case anyone is looking for an OOTB solution here - the fixed() function will do this easily for you. 
 tointeger(
 fixed(00002803,0)
)

baratc · Answer

Hi Lin, 
 Please try this plugin - regexreplaceall . Thus will help you for this specific case and also many other use cases related to formatting text using regex. Refer the link for downloading the plugin. 
 regexreplaceall("^0+","0000100","") 
 https://community.appian.com/b/appmarket/posts/regular-expression-functions 
 
 hope this helps. Have a good Day!

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